JAYNE SVENUNGSSON. Curriculum Vitae

JAYNE SVENUNGSSON Curriculum Vitae Born: 9 December 1973 in Trollhättan, Sweden Education and Academic Career - 1996 Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies (Subjects: Religious Studies, Linguistics, History of Ideas), Faculty of Arts, Gothenburg University. - 1998 Master of Arts in Religious Studies. Title of MA thesis: Teologi och postmodernism (Subjects: Religious Science, Linguistics, History of Ideas, History, Theory of Science and Philosophy), Faculty of Arts, Gothenburg University. - 1998 Bachelor of Theology, Faculty of Arts, Gothenburg University. - 1998 Enrolled as a doctoral student in Systematic Theology under the direction of Professor Werner G. Jeanrond at the Faculty of Theology, Lund University. - 2002 Doctor of Theology, Title of doctoral thesis: Guds återkomst. En studie av gudsbegreppet inom postmodern filosofi [The Return of God: A Study of the Concept of God in Postmodern Philosophy], Faculty of Theology, Lund University. - 2003 2014 Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Stockholm School of Theology. - 2011 Senior Lecturer [Swedish: Docent] in Systematic Theology and Studies in Worldviews, Uppsala University. - 2015 Professor of Systematic Theology with competence in Philosophy of Religion, Lund University. Academic Awards, Grants and Honours - Henrik Steffens-Fellowship, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung (nominated by the winner of the Henrik Steffens Preis 2004, Katarina Frostenson), 2004. - Fellowship for post-doctoral research in a foreign country from the Nils-Eric Svensson Trust, Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2005. - Research grant from the Swedish Research Council. Project: Thinking History: Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit, 2008 2010. - Research grant from Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. Project: Time, Memory and Representation: A Multidisciplinary Program on Transformations in Historical Consciousness, 2010 2015.

2 - Per Beskow Prize for contributing to the dialogue between theology, society and culture in the public sphere, 2014. - The Nine Society (Samfundet De Nio) Christmas Prize, 2014. - Karin Gierow Prize (awarded be the Swedish Academy) for dedicated contribution to cultural formation or artful dissemination of knowledge, 2015. Visiting Lecturer/Research Fellow - October January 2000: Visiting doctoral student under the direction of Professor Christoph Schwöbel at the Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg. - April June 2001: Visiting doctoral student under the direction of Professor Jean Greisch at the Institut Catholique, Paris. - April 2005 January 2006: Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. - May 2007: Visiting lecturer at Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut. - September November 2008: Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. - September December 2014: Visiting Fellow at St. Benet s Hall, University of Oxford. Membership in Networks and Societies - INTH (International Network for Theory of History). - NSPR (Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion). From June 2007 June 2009 Swedish representative on the NSPR-board. - Society of Sciences in Lund. Conference Organisation - Skärningspunkter och sammanflätningar. Ett symposium om teologi, filosofi och litteratur, Stockholm School of Theology, 2005. Invited speakers: Katarina Frostenson, Werner G. Jeanrond, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Anders Olsson, Ola Sigurdson, Bengt Kristensson Uggla, et al. - 16th Nordic Conference for Systematic Theology, Gothenburg, 2010 (Swedish representative of the organizing committee). - Body, Pain and Passion, Stockholm School of Theology, 2011. Invited speakers: Tina Beattie, Frederiek Depoortere, Mark Godin, Paul Hedges, Alana Vincent, et al.

3 - Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution, Vilnius, 2012. Invited speakers: Catherine Chalier, Victor Seidler, Ward Blanton, Alexandra Polyan, Björn Thorsteinsson, Alexander Lokshin, et al. - 4th Nordic Conference in Philosophy and Religion: Monument and Memory, Stockholm, 2013. Invited speakers: Hent de Vries, Amy Hollywood, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Andreas Nordlander. - Justice, Hope and Redemption Jewish Perspectives, Oxford, 2014. Invited speakers: Michael Löwy, Victor J. Seidler, Alana M. Vincent, et al. - Heidegger and Theology After the Black Notebooks, Lund University, 2015. Invited speakers: George Pattison, Hans Ruin, Peter Trawny, Judith Wolfe. Participation in International Conferences and Workshops - Philosophy & Religion, Södertörn, 2002 (respondent). - Contemporary French Theology and Philosophy, Lund, 2002 (key note). - Toolkits for Discipleship. The Second Theological Conference of the Porvoo Communion, Skálholt, 2004 (respondent). - Ernst Cassirer Society: Ernst Cassirer and the Philosophy and Sociology of Religion, Göteborg, 2005 (key note). - 2 nd Swedish Finnish Phenomenological Workshop: Derrida and Phenomenology, Södertörn, 2005 (paper). - 15 th Nordic Conference on Systematic Theology: Spirit and Spirituality, Hillerød, 2007 (key note). - 1 st Nordic Conference on Philosophy and Religion: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, Oslo, 2007 (paper). - Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers, Stockholm, 2008 (paper). - 17 th ESPR (European Society for Philosophy of Religion) Conference: Sacrifice, Oslo, 2008 (respondent). - Art, Religion, Identity, Glasgow, 2008 (paper). - Moderne teologi. Tradisjon og nytenkning hos det 20. århundrets teologer, Bergen, 2008 (key note). - Theology and Desire, Oslo, 2009 (paper). - Sarah Coakley Symposium, Lund, 2009 (respondent). - NorLit conference: Codex and Code. Aesthetics, Language, and Politics in an Age of Digital Media, Stockholm, 2009 (paper).

4 - ESF Exploratory Workshop: Technology and Religion: Structural Affinities and Cultural Challenges, Glasgow, 2009 (respondent). - Religion and Public Life: A Colloquium, Glasgow, 2010 (paper). - Borders and Boundaries, Roehampton, 2012 (paper). - Transcending Europe, Helsinki, 2012 (paper). - 17 th Nordic Conference on Systematic Theology: Politics in Theology Theology in Politics, Reykjavik, 2013 (key note). - Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling, Leuven, 2013 (paper). - Theological Reflections on the Great War, Winchester, 2014 (paper). - The Engelsberg Seminar 2014: Religion, Avesta, 2014 (paper). - Is History History?, Johannesburg, 2014 (paper). - Justice, Hope and Redemption Jewish Perspectives, Oxford, 2014 (paper). - Ethos of History Time, Memory, Representation, Sigtuna, 2015 (paper). Teaching Full time substantial teaching and supervision at Stockholm School of Theology (2003 2014) and at Lund University (since 2015). Courses taught in all areas of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, e.g. fundamental theology (e.g. hermeneutics, theological method, etc.), dogmatics, historical theology, theological ethics, feminist and queer theology, theology and film, theology of religions, philosophical theology and political philosophy. Supervision of BA and MA theses and of doctoral dissertations. Examination of Doctoral Dissertations - Member of examination committee at the universities of Uppsala (2008), Gothenburg (2011), and Lund (2011). - External Examiner at Oslo University (2011 and 2013). Research Interests The concept of God; pneumatology; philosophical and theological hermeneutics; phenomenology; political theology/philosophy; Jewish philosophy; messianism; philosophy and theology of history.

5 Work on Editorial Boards Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift (Swedish Journal of Theology): Member of the editorial board since 2005. Annex (semi-annual review magazine for academic literature in Swedish): Member of the editorial board 2006 2007. Public Service Regular participation in public lecture series, hearings, and discussions on philosophical and theological issues. Member of editorial board of the popular theological magazine Trots Allt 2005 2009. Media Work Regular contributions to daily, weekly and monthly papers and magazines (e.g. Svenska Dagbladet, Dixikon and Axess). Language Skills Swedish (native), English (fluent). I also have reading skills in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

6 PUBLICATIONS I. BOOKS Monographs 1. Guds återkomst: En studie av gudsbegreppet inom postmodern filosofi, Logos/Pathos nr. 3, Göteborg: Glänta, 2004. First edition sold out; reprinted in 2007. 2a. Den gudomliga historien: Profetism, messianism och andens utveckling, Göteborg: Glänta, 2014. 2b. Divining History: Prophetism, Messianism and the Development of the Spirit, trans. Stephen Donovan, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (forthcoming). Offprints 1. Den profetiska rösten. Om teologins otidsenliga uppdrag [Per Beskow Prize Lecture 5th May 2014], Skellefteå: Artos & Norma, 2015. Collective works 3. Ola Sigurdson and Jayne Svenungsson, eds, Postmodern teologi. En introduktion. Stockholm: Verbum, 200 4. Mattias Martinson, Ola Sigurdson and Jayne Svenungsson, eds, Systematisk teologi. En introduktion. Stockholm: Verbum, 2007. 5. Elena Namli, Jayne Svenungsson and Alana M. Vincent, eds, Jewish Thought, Utopia and Revolution. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014. 6. Jonna Bornemark, Mattias Martinson and Jayne Svenungsson, eds, Monument and Memory, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015. II. CHAPTERS IN BOOKS, HANDBOOKS AND ENCYCLOPAEDIAS 1. Negativ teologi och postmodern filosofi, in Carl-Reinhold Bråkenhielm and Mattias Martinson (eds), Negativ teologi. Historiska och filosofiska perspektiv, Working Papers in Theology nr 3, Uppsala: Teologiska institutionen, 2003, 29 48. 2. Brottet med det möjligas regim. Om Jacques Derrida och dekonstruktionens teologisering, in Mats Rosengren and Ola Sigurdson (eds), Penelopes väv. För en filosofisk och teologisk pathologi. Logos/Pathos nr. 1, Göteborg: Glänta, 2003, 179 201. 3. Bibeln och den radikala hermeneutiken, in Anne-Louise Eriksson (ed.), Tolkning för livet. Åtta teologer om bibelns auktoritet, Stockholm: Verbum, 2004, 193 214.

7 4. En gåtfull spegelbild : Introduktion till postmodern teologi (co-written with Ola Sigurdson), in Ola Sigurdson and Jayne Svenungsson (eds), Postmodern teologi: En introduktion. Stockholm: Verbum, 2006, 7 44. 5. Filosofihistoria och sekularisering. Om filosofins teologiska genealogi, Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria. Tema: Filosofihistoriens idé (eds Mats Persson och Sharon Rider), 2006, 269 282 (peer reviewed). 6. S(p)året av Gud, i Lars Ingelstam, Johnny Jonsson and Berit Åqvist (eds), Spår av Gud. Vänbok till Valborg Lindgärde rektor vid Teologiska Högskolan Stockholm, Stockholm: Studia Theologica Holmiensia, 2006, 33 38. 7. Den heliga Anden, in Mattias Martinson, Ola Sigurdson and Jayne Svenungsson (eds), Systematisk teologi. En introduktion. Stockholm: Verbum, 2007, 239 261. 8a. Postmodern teologi, in Ståle Johannes Kristiansen and Svein Rise (eds), Moderne teologi. Tradisjon og nytenkning hos det 20. århundrets teologer, Kristiansand: Høyskoleforlaget, 2008, 614 626. 8b. Postmodern Theology, trans. Stephen Donovan, in Ståle Johannes Kristiansen and Svein Rise (eds), Key Theological Thinkers: From Modern to Postmodern, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, 569 580. 9. Smärtans ansikte. För en ikonisk passionsfenomenologi, in Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), Att tänka smärtan, Södertörn Philosophical Studies 5, Huddinge: Södertörn University, 2009, 243 268. 10. Tradition and Transformation: Towards a Messianic Critique of Religion, in Jonna Bornemark and Hans Ruin (eds), Phenomenology and Religion: New Frontiers, Södertörn Philosophical Studies 8, Huddinge: Södertörn University, 2010, 205 222. 11. Desire and Justice: Levinas and Heschel on Human and Divine Pathos, in Jan-Olav Henriksen and LeRon Shults (eds), Saving Desire: The Seduction of Christian Theology, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011, 164 189. 12. Gud mellan upplysning och vidskepelse, in Sven Rise (ed.), En bok om Gud: Gudstanken i brytningen mellom det moderne og det postmoderne, Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2011, 185 198. 13. Enlightened Prejudices: Anti-Jewish Tropes in Modern Philosophy, in Andrus Ers and Hans Ruin (eds), Conceptualizing History: Essays on History, Memory and Representation, Södertörn Philosophical Studies 11, Huddinge: Södertörn University, 2011, 279 290. 14a. Det Eviga Evangeliet: Joakim av Floris och den romantiska drömmen om en ny religion, Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria. Tema: Den tyska idealismen (eds Anders Burman and Rebecka Lettervall), 2011, 169 182 (peer reviewed). 14b. Det Eviga Evangeliet: Joakim av Floris och den romantiska drömmen om en ny religion, in Anders Burman and Rebecka Lettervall (eds), Tysk idealism. Stockholm: Axl Books, 2014, 171 194. 15a. Det kristna Europa och gemenskapens gränser: Novalis Europatanke och samtiden, in Jon Wittrock (ed.), Tid för Europa: Gemenskap, minne, hopp, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2012, 61 78.

8 15b. Christian Europe: Borders and Boundaries of a Mythological Conception, in Susanna Lindberg, Sergei Prozorov and Mika Ojakangas (eds), Transcending Europe: Beyond Universalism and Particularism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 120 134. 16. Nådens gränser. Om universella ambitioner och partikulära hämskor, in Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Ingrid Rasch (eds), Minne och manipulation: Om det kollektiva minnets praktiker, Lund: CFE Conference Papers Series No. 6, 2013, 61 70. 17. A Secular Utopia: Remarks on the Löwith-Blumenberg Debate, in Elena Namli, Jayne Svenungsson and Alana Vincent (eds), Jewish Thought, Utopia and Revolution. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014, 69 84. 18. Tro bortom idolerna: Ateism och sanningslidelse hos Pär Lagerkvist, Den religiöse ateisten: Pär Lagerkvists-Samfundets årsskrift 2014, Växjö: Pär Lagerkvist-Samfundets förlag, 2014, 115 126. 19a. The Visionary Potential of the Biblical Legacy, in Kurt Almqvist and Alexander Linklater (eds), Religion, Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2014, 297 306. 19b. Drömmen om en annan värld: Om det bibliska arvets utopiska kraft, in Mårten Björk and Jon Wittrock (eds), Människa, stat, utopi En antologi om det möjligas konst, Göteborg: Daidalos, 2015, 217 232. 20. Den förlösande tiden: Messianska motiv i Agambens politiska filosofi, in Victoria Fareld and Hans Ruin (eds), Historiens hemvist, Göteborg: Makadam (in print). III. ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS 1. Postmoderna perspektiv, Tro och Liv, 59:3 (2000), 25 31. 2. Att tro att man tror på en religion utan religion. Om Jacques Derridas och Gianni Vattimos postmoderna bekännelser, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 77:4 (2001), 151 160. 3. Response to Possibilities of the Impossible. Derrida s Idea of Justice and Negative Theology, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 78:3 (2002), 132 133. 4. Idolernas vedersakare. Om Friedrich Nietzsche och den nya fascinationen inför gudsfrågan, i Aiolos, 20 21 (2003), 143 161. 5. Vem säger ni att jag är? Om kristologidebattens teologiska sammanhang, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 80:2 (2004), 50 53. 6. Postmodern teologi, Signum, 30:9 (2004), 9 14. 7. Liv vid språkets gräns, Glänta, 4 (2005), 58 60. 8a. Europa, das Christentum und die Säkularisierung, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. Netzwerk Magazin, October 2005 (http://www.toepferfvs.de/netzwerk-magazin.html). 8b. Europa, kristendomen, sekulariseringen, Ord & Bild, 5 (2006), 38 45.

9 9. Histoire de la philosophie et sécularisation : de la généalogie théologique de la philosophie, L Orient des dieux, Vol. VI VII (2006-2007), 65 82. 10. Exil som självförglömmelse. Om Lévinas, Celan och rörelsen mot den andre, Aiolos, 30 31 (2007), 111 116. 11. Transcending Tradition: Towards a Critical Theology of the Spirit, Studia Theologica, 62:1 (2008), 63 79 (peer reviewed). 12. Sacrifice, Conflict and the Foundation of Culture, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, vol. 50 (2008), 330 341 (peer reviewed). 13. Väntan på Messias är tidens själva varaktighet. Rationalism och messianism hos Maimonides och Levinas, Subaltern, 1 (2009), 50 55. 14. Pain, Passion and Compassion: A Response to Sarah Coakley, Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 85:2 (2009), 85 89. 15. Wrestling with Angels: Or, How to Avoid Decisionist Messianic Romances, International Journal of Zizek Studies [online], 4:4 (2010). http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/268/343 (peer reviewed). 16. Joakim och draken: En skräckteologisk betraktelse, Aiolos, 40 41 (2011), 93 100. 17. Representing Pain in Film: A Phenomenological Approach to Gibson, Tarantino and Lynch, Culture and Religion, vol. 13 (2012), 67 74 (peer reviewed). 18. Public Faith and the Common Good: A Radical Messianic Proposal, Political Theology, vol. 14, issue 6 (2013), 744 757 (peer reviewed). 19a. Sekulariseringen av eschaton, Subaltern, 3 4 (2013), 76 84. 19b. After Utopia: On the Post-war Debates on History and Ideology, Storiografia, vol. 18 (2015), 203 218 (peer reviewed). 20. Människan på gott och ont: Freuds tragiska antropologi, Agora, vol. 1 2 (2014), 74 85 (peer reviewed). 21. På trots mot tillvarons tomhet: Emmanuel Levinas och 1900-talets meningskris, Aiolos, vol. 46 47 (2014), 133 138. 22. Med sinne och smak för det oändliga. Marilynne Robinsons romantiska teopoetik, Vinduet, 4 (2015), 40 48. IV BOOK REVIEWS 1. Graham Ward (ed.), The Postmodern God: A theological Reader, Malden och Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 74:3 (1998), 151 152.

10 2. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward (eds), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, London och New York: Routledge. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 75:4 (1999), 184 186. 3. Davis S. Cunningham, These Three Are One: The Practice of Trinitarian Theology, Malden och Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 76:2 (2000), 115 117. 4. Nina Björk, Sireners sång: Tankar kring modernitet och kön, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 2000. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 76:4 (2000), 214 216. 5. John D. Caputo, The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 77:1 (2001), 45 46. 6. André Glucksmann, La troisième mort de Dieu, Paris: NIL Éditions, 2000. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 77:4 (2001), 191 192. 7. Dominique Janicaud et al., Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French debate, New York: Fordham University press, 2000. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 78:3 (2002), 145 146. 8. Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Slaget om verkligheten. Filosofi, omvärldsanalys, tolkning, Brutus Östlings Förlag Symposion, 2002. Tro & Liv, 62:2 (2003), 27 29. 9. Bo Brander, Människan och den ekologiska väven. Om människan som mikrokosmos och som skapelsens förvaltare. Bjärnum: Artos, 2002. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 80:1 (2004), 42 43. 10. Thomas Ekstrand och Mattias Martinson, Tro och tvivel. Systematiska reflektioner över kristen tro. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2004. Tro & Liv, 63:5 (2004), 38 39. 11. Michel Onfray, Handbok för ateister. En ateologisk betraktelse. Nora: Nya Doxa, 2006. Annex, 2 (2006), 29 30. 12. Thomas Orylski, Migrations du croire chez Michel de Certeau. Lunds universitet, 2007. Tro & Liv, 66:3-4 (2007), 42 44. 13. Jesper Svartvik, Bibeltolkningens bakgator. Synen på judar, slavar och homosexuella i historia och nutid, Verbum, 2006. Signum, 33:6 (2007), 51 52. 14. René Girard, Syndabocken en antologi, ed. by Anders Olsson, Themis, 2007. Annex, 2 (2007), 10 11. 15. Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Autopsia: Self, Death, and God after Kierkegaard and Derrida, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 86:3 (2010), 140 141. 16. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Att tänka i skisser. Essäer om bildens filosofi och filosofins bilder. Göteborg: Glänta, 2011. Axess, nr 2 (2012), 93 94. 17. Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan, L antisémitisme partout. Aujourd hui en France, Paris: La Fabrique, 2011. Dixikon, February, 2014, http://www.dixikon.se/utvalda-bocker/franska/alain-badiou-och-erichazan-lantisemitisme-partout. 18. Victor J. Seidler, Remembering 9/11. Terror, Trauma, and Social Theory, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, Axess, nr 5, 2014, 81 82.

11 19. Peter Kemp, Engagementets politik, Köpenhamn: Anis, 2013. Dixikon, August, 2014, http://www.dixikon.se/utvalda-bocker/nordiska/peter-kempengagementets-poetik/. 20. Henrik Jøker Bjerre och Carsten Bagge Lausten, Den nyttige idiot: En introduktion til Žižeks samfundsteori, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, Agora, nr. 3 4 (2014), 248 255.